A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean…

Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months.

This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010…

Like some emerging lifeform, community food systems is an idea now growing in Australia’s town and cities where it holds promise of a different food future.

Some have claimed the inner city/Inner West to be the epicentre of community food system evolution, but now attention turns eastward to Sydney’s coastal city east region where community food systems are diversifying. But will that diversity merely fragment or will it fit all the better to the niches and crannies occupied by the region’s eaters…

Adelaide’s Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue…

CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit  Read more »

IT’S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council’s Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago…

IT WAS LIKE TOURING AN INNER URBAN and Eastern Suburbs food trail… a tour of food initiatives starting at Waterloo and ending in the far reaches of Randwick. The tour was one of three organised as part of October 2009’s Sydney Food Fairness Alliance’s (SFFA) Food Summit, Hungry For Change. While other tours headed off  Read more »